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Human rights organizations request immediate intervention from EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton
1st June 2014 | Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association | Ramallah, Occupied Palestine Baroness Catherine Ashton High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission 242, rue de la Loi B-1049 Brussels Date: 01 June 2014 Re: Mass Hunger Strike of Palestinian ‘Administrative Detainees’ Dear High Representative, We, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the undersigned human rights organizations, wish to bring to your…
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The case of Rachel Corrie
1st June 2014 | Jack Pine Tribune | Occupied Palestine Over a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed under the blades of an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah, her parents Craig and Cindy Corrie found themselves in the halls of the Supreme Court of Israel. The Corries were appealing a verdict handed down in 2013 by Judge Oded Gershon of the Haifa District Court decision. Gershon ruled that Corrie was responsible for her own life by entering willfully into…
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Israeli soldiers detain 7 and 10-year-old boys in Hebron
1st June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine This morning in al-Khalil (Hebron) Israeli forces detained two young Palestinian boys, 10-year-old Fares Abu Senene and 7-year-old Haitham Asrawi for one hour. ISM activists spoke to an eyewitness who explained that the boys has been held for at least 30 minutes. For one of the boys, his mother stood with him, the other was forced to wait for a further 10 minutes before his own…



